Anyone grow Carnivorous Plants??
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Tam- nice little tea-rose, glad it survived (weren't we talking about that very plant a while back??)
Hermann- that's some pretty fine growing there- I always loved Mimosa flowers, and you got a pretty healthy lookin plant going- did you start it from seeds or buy it already established?? and do you keep the plant constantly growing?? Mine always seem to die in the second year somehows (usually cos I forget to water then in a hot spell, but sometimes they just go down out of the blue)
Either way, you inspired me to start some seeds again
Hermann- that's some pretty fine growing there- I always loved Mimosa flowers, and you got a pretty healthy lookin plant going- did you start it from seeds or buy it already established?? and do you keep the plant constantly growing?? Mine always seem to die in the second year somehows (usually cos I forget to water then in a hot spell, but sometimes they just go down out of the blue)
Either way, you inspired me to start some seeds again
i grew them from seed but I only had them for a year cos i had to move. They WERE starting to get pretty straggly and I doubt they would have been as good the next year. I miss my plants. I used to have an ammaryllis called bob. I had him for 12 years and he flowered faithfully every year in march.
all i have atm is an aloe vera
all i have atm is an aloe vera
Ahh glad to see you admit to naming your plants, I have quite a few with names/titles of some kind or other (I have a Nepenthes named Bill, he too flowers yearly for us- too bad "He" is a female plant)
Mimosa seem to grow best as annuals but they can be kept longer, I was hoping you could imaprt some wisdow on the subject but I think it might be best to grow new crops every year- you know, you can get mimosa seeds for a buck right around now in many places, maybe time for round two ???
Mimosa seem to grow best as annuals but they can be kept longer, I was hoping you could imaprt some wisdow on the subject but I think it might be best to grow new crops every year- you know, you can get mimosa seeds for a buck right around now in many places, maybe time for round two
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good luck dude.
The other thing i tried was growing seeds from my amaryllis... it worked fine during the testing stages but then my attempts to take the seeds to canada with me to start a new generation of bob's offspring (i was going to call them the wailers) failed. I assume the seeds were sterilised by the X-rays
The other thing i tried was growing seeds from my amaryllis... it worked fine during the testing stages but then my attempts to take the seeds to canada with me to start a new generation of bob's offspring (i was going to call them the wailers) failed. I assume the seeds were sterilised by the X-rays
Tam- nice little tea-rose, glad it survived (weren't we talking about that very plant a while back??)
Hermann- that's some pretty fine growing there- I always loved Mimosa flowers, and you got a pretty healthy lookin plant going- did you start it from seeds or buy it already established?? and do you keep the plant constantly growing?? Mine always seem to die in the second year somehows (usually cos I forget to water then in a hot spell, but sometimes they just go down out of the blue)
Either way, you inspired me to start some seeds again
Yup its the one from the shop that was dying. The Lavender I have is from seeds and didnt come out as well as I thought it should but the Daisies I planted last full moon shocked me. I'll cull them this week.
Ahh, the NJ Pine Barrens
http://thewildones.org/PineBarrens/PineBarrens.html
There is/was some interesting stuff in there
That Lavender- maybe a bit more sand in the "dirt", then you can watre it more often and it'll drain nice and quick, they seem to like being dry-ish
And the daisies look like you got a pretty good turn-out from the seeds, nice work
Sadly it's snowy here today so even the daffodils are all droopy dammit
http://thewildones.org/PineBarrens/PineBarrens.html
There is/was some interesting stuff in there
That Lavender- maybe a bit more sand in the "dirt", then you can watre it more often and it'll drain nice and quick, they seem to like being dry-ish
And the daisies look like you got a pretty good turn-out from the seeds, nice work
Sadly it's snowy here today so even the daffodils are all droopy dammit
I tend to over water so I was trying an experiment lol I'll pick up some sand next check. The tea rose is my pride......it was near dead and look at it now
The tea rose is my pride......it was near dead and look at it now 
Great topic, Mabudon.
I love plants, and I always thought myself rather silly when every now and again I would have to get rid of one of them and I felt bad for some reason....It's like they are pets or something.
I would love to get a meat eating plant!
I love plants, and I always thought myself rather silly when every now and again I would have to get rid of one of them and I felt bad for some reason....It's like they are pets or something.
I would love to get a meat eating plant!
Thanks Jay! You can pretty much grow plants for all "applications"- some are best for catching fruit-flies year-round on a windowsill, some are good for much larger prey, outside and indoors- I have a pretty wide-ranging collection, a lot of the pretty interesting looking stuff is also the easiest to grow AND find.
Perhaps the "punchline" to this thread is that I've been a strict vegetarian for almost 15 years.... I always think that's kinda odd
Perhaps the "punchline" to this thread is that I've been a strict vegetarian for almost 15 years.... I always think that's kinda odd
Kinda like me being a pasafist and owning Ball Pythons LOL I got the Biggest kick on feeding day!
Even worse- last summer I actually ATE some flower stalks off my plants to see what they tasted like (not really like anything actually) so if a vegetarian eats a plant that lured, killed and ate a bug- what does it mean?? I still can't figure it out